[imText1]The S. Korean government announced its decision to affirm the U.N. North Korea Human Rights Resolution and though analysts on NK affairs assumed that the decision of the government seems like acting out of criticism of international community. It has been argued that, this time must be utilized as an opportunity to take proactive measures. <\/p>\n
Professor Yoo Ho Yeul of Korea University said \u201cThough the feelings are overdue, it is very positive that a decision has been made to affirm the North Korea Human Rights Resolution\u201d and \u201cIn future, not only must we agree but constructive action must be taken to improve human rights in North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Yoo asserted \u201cThe government should not vote for the resolution just for the sake of the reputation of the next U.N. Secretary-General, Ban Ki Moon. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, he said \u201cFor a while the government was acclimatizing to North Korea and hence did not participate nor place an absentee vote on the North Korea Human Rights Resolution\u201d and strongly stated \u201cWe must send a clear message that we will speak out and that we will not be intimidated by North Korea\u2019s nuke experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Chun In Young of Seoul National University said \u201cThe issue of human rights is not only a national issue, yet our government has generally been displaying negative responsibility\u201d and \u201cIt is fortunately that the government has at least now agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Chun said \u201cAs much as the U.N. is committed to Korea, the government\u2019s affirmation to the decision is inevitable\u201d and analyzed \u201cThe government was feeling pressure from within the nation for showing a negative attitude towards the issue of human rights in North Korea and was concerned that the international community\u2019s favorability would decline if an absentee vote was placed again.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition, analysts predict that even if the North Korea Human Rights Resolution is affirmed, little change will be made to the North Korea engagement policy. <\/p>\n
Professor Yoo conjectured that \u201cThe government won\u2019t change the engagement policy towards North Korea\u201d and said \u201cThe government will need to deliberate on what policies it will adopt to realistically improve human rights in North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n
He argued \u201cIn order to solve issues including North Korea human rights, the government needs to strengthen cooperation with the international community\u201d and added \u201cThere is evidence to show that the engagement policy was ineffective in producing change in North Korea such as North Korea\u2019s nuke experiments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Professor Chun assumes that \u201cWhile the government did take measures to reduce North Korea aid when the nuclear experiments were being conducted, even if the North Korea Human Rights Resolution is agreed looking at the bigger picture, there will not be significant changes to the North Korea engagement policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[imText1]The S. Korean government announced its decision to affirm the U.N. North Korea Human Rights Resolution and though analysts on NK affairs assumed that the decision of the government seems like acting out of criticism of international community. It has been argued that, this time must be utilized as an opportunity to take proactive measures. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":2951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n